Dionis

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Dionisio in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, PH Philippines and 13 more, Dionysios in PL Poland, GR Greece, FI Finland and 1 more, Denys in FR France, BE Belgium, CA Canada and Dionysius in NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dionis is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name5.8K records spelled Dionis9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Brazil, Germany

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Diònis, Dionís, Diónis

• Albanian given name4.8K records spelled Dionis8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Italy, Kosovo, United States

  Also written Dionysios, Dîónís, Ďióňiš, Dionysius, Díõnîs

• French given name2.3K records spelled Dionis4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Dionís

• Russian given name496 records spelled Dionis17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

  Also written Дионис, Діонис, Дионіс, Dionys, Dionysus

• Greek given name377 records spelled Dionis5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Greece, Italy, Russia

  Also written Διωνης, Dionís, Διώνης, Διονης

• Georgian given name243 records spelled Dionis2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Georgia

  Also written Დიონის

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dionis is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, Variante di Dionisio

  as a name·Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

• In fur, Dionysus (the Greek god of wine)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, genitive singular of Diōn

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 46 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Pierre Dionisb. 1640FRFrench physician
• Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjourb. 1734FRmathematician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 237 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dionis?

We estimate roughly 59 thousand people bear Dionis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Dionis have the most bearers?

Dionis is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled dionisio.

Where is Dionis most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dionis is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Dionis compared with other names?

In Argentina, Dionis is the 573rd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Dionis a male or female name?

Dionis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Dionis mean?

Recorded meaning: forma reduzida ou apocopada de Dionisio